To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has as to in how many cases an abortion performed at 18 weeks or more gestation has been on the grounds that a mother had been in contact with the AIDS virus or had contracted AIDS.

Of the notifications received for the period 1 January 1983 to 30 September 1987 (the 1987 data being provisional), there have been two at 18 completed weeks and over gestation where AIDS has been given as the principal medical condition on the notification form.